Board Review

Board is an all-in-one decision-making platform that unifies data discovery and reporting with analytics and performance management, allowing you to visualize any set of data, find existing and future trends, and see if your company and workforce are meeting their performance requirements. Designed for a wide variety of industries and company departments, the software offers a combination of analytics, planning, simulation, and predictive modeling to help companies take control over the entire decision-making process. It also has a convenient drag-and-drop interface and lets you choose from different visual representations to populate. Moreover, it can easily be deployed depending on your preferences as it can be used on the cloud or as an on-premise platform.

Board affords users a holistic view of the company. Managers can simply upload data, input metrics, which are akin to Excel formulas, and the system will contextualize the information. Data sets can be analyzed through a time-based scale, from year-on-year analyses to monthly and daily cycles, thus allowing companies to monitor their sales, budget allocations, expenses, profits, and other pertinent data. This potentially reduces a company’s TCO in the process given the breadth of functionalities afforded. The software is also equipped with an expansive set of statistical functions, so you can determine relevant information like the average outputs submitted per day or the frequency of errors.

Drill downs in Board are automated, with the software suggesting logical paths of data exploration. As such, you can prime the system to analyze information in line with your team’s workflow. The platform can also pull data from various reports and aggregate them to form concrete values, which is useful when monitoring the overall performance of your team members or computing for product ratings. As such, it promotes timeliness, especially in submitting deliverables.

For instance, managers can input the ideal values of service levels and key performance indicators into the system, then enter the values that make up the actual performance of each member of the team. The software will run the datasets through the assigned formulas and then apply its own analytics to yield outcomes beyond what was initially intended. With this, you can identify specific areas of improvement for each team member and formulate a concrete plan of action. This improves your self-sufficiency as a manager. Furthermore, Board is capable of predictive analytics, which will help you make informed decisions thereafter.

Besides analyzing performance, Board can be leveraged as a comprehensive planning tool. The platform can simulate scenarios and outcomes with its native logical functionalities. It grants you the flexibility to input complex information, such as validation rules, product turnover rates, and accounting values, as it performs its own calculations. In addition, it allows multiple users to enter data concurrently in real-time and attach files. This is particularly useful when planning to create a new product line, penetrate a new market, or build a new marketing campaign.

Board can also be used to manage your workflow and business model. With the platform granting users a robust link between organizational levels, functions, and people, you can program the cells to reflect your team’s actual operations, accounting for validation processes, triggered events per action, and automatic notifications. Moreover, the software has pre-built rules that you can configure to automate repetitive tasks and suit your company’s business model, which is useful to large organizations. You can also integrate data from business applications and databases, thanks to its pre-built connectors. Meanwhile, spreadsheet formulas can be entered to generate tabular reports regarding projected and actual performance.

Users are unlikely to get overwhelmed with information when using Board. After all, the system populates and segregates all the visualized data on its dashboard. Managers can easily keep track of values like monthly sales, employee performance, or the number of returned products just by looking at the charts and tables. This is made possible by the platform’s ETL functionalities and metadata layer, which sort and quantify heterogeneous data. Board can even predict what will happen to your business based on historical data, so your company can focus more on earning a larger market share.

Board has a native mobile app, for iOS and Android users, so you can be on top of your business when you’re away from the office. It also integrates with Microsoft Office applications. Interested parties can avail of the free demo that the vendor provides.